Re: Abiword and Images

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Damir wrote:

> Giancarlo pravi:
> >
> > Ryan, Alan, Hubert,
> > thanks for your response.
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestions: this is what I undestood:
> > - abiword is not the program I need when I have to mix text and images
> > (500k image can't generate 5M document!)

> Right! I tried Abi and was disappointed with graphics capabilities.
> MSWord for Windows, version 2.0, works great on older PCs. Not free.

I think a lot of people would be happy with Microsoft Wordpad if it
actually included spell checking.

> Still don't understand, how program that old, that small in size (1MB!),
> can do much more then Abi?

Abiword can be compressed to less than 1MB, the spellchecking dictionary
however takes up more than 2M. If a developer wanted to create an even
smaller version of Abiword it should be possible and you are welcome to
submit patches.

Also Microsoft takes advantage of things already included in the Operating
System where as Abiword carries around the infrastructure it needs.
There are lots of things abiword can do that microsoft word cannot. The
most obvious of which is that Abiword works on many operating systems,
Microsoft Word does not (Office for the mac is an entirely different
program).

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

Inkscape http://inkscape.org
Abiword http://www.abisource.com
Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org

Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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Received on Mon Sep 18 16:57:50 2006